Amen. Page #5

Synopsis: In World War II, the sanitation engineer and family man Kurt Gerstein is assigned by SS to be the Head of the Institute for Hygiene to purify the water for the German Army in the front. Later, he is invited to participate in termination of plagues in the concentration camps and he develops the lethal gas Zyklon-B. When he witnesses that the SS is killing Jews instead, he decides to denounce the genocide to the Pope to expose to the world and save the Jewish families. The idealist Jesuit priest Riccardo Fontana from an influent Italian family gives his best efforts being the liaison of Gerstein and the leaders of the Vatican.
Director(s): Costa-Gavras
Production: Kino International
  4 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
67%
NOT RATED
Year:
2002
132 min
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It is about the provisioning

of quality Zyklon.

Treblinka is in an out-of-stock condition!

If we do not use

what only one point of storage?

Too risky!

Our camps have never been bombarded.

The Convention of Geneva prohibits it.

Can one rationalize

this problem of provisioning?

The forecasts are established

for 10000 units per day.

10000 for all the camps?

I receive 6000 units per day!

Me too!

I cannot treat them...

nor house them.

I receive from 7 to 8000 per day.

A true chaos.

There are some who make the war

from their offices!

And ask us to accelerate!

Give us the means!

Ask the co. Schriever

grinding stones to crush them.

It's a never ending story!

I have nightmares of them!

Silence!

A little order, please.

- You evaluate your needs with how much?

- I do not evaluate.

I want enormous stocks of Zyklon

in only one place, underground.

Spend a little money.

The suppliers will have trouble to keep up.

They shout Heil Hitler

and fill their pockets.

They should be wary.

One can aryaniser the aryanisateurs!

Gerhard will be your intermediary.

He can do it.

It is all well introduced in Switzerland

and in the neutral countries.

I do not want any fault because

of lack of gas or installations.

These are your estimates?

Have a look at it.

I awaited you.

I am wary of the telephone.

The Allies must act.

The situation worsens.

It is necessary to bombard

the ways which lead to the camps

and places of extermination.

I informed my government.

Insist! The machine of death

goes day and night!

You over-estimate the

capacity of the heads of State.

We negotiate with the United States

for 7 months

so that they accept

2000 Jewish children.

2000, is a water drop

in the ocean.

It arrives from there ten times more per day.

For your family...

A friend will inform the Pope.

I am sure that he will react.

The Allies must be ready

to inform the German people.

I will let it be known.

I can obtain passports for you...

I will not leave my country.

I must testify.

A French dinner

for German Christmas!

I will have a farm in Normandy

with horses.

After our victory.

I found a farm in Poland.

Not in Poland,

my wife and me let us hate the cold.

I will have an island in Greece.

And your dream, Kurt?

I want to be a German in Germany

to testify on what I saw.

Alas, you will not be able to say all.

Excuse me.

A German in Germany!

You are there! It is well.

You have a visitor, I can go out again...

Remain! You must translate.

- It will start.

- Mrs. Hinze, the radio!

I return.

It was the promised surprise?

No, it arrives now.

There will be precise rules

to respect.

The Germans comply with the rules,

if they are precise.

No gifts before...

to sing!

- did That start?

- It is imminent.

I will get rid of them.

Now, the surprise.

I have a small play

for your Christmas presents.

When I whistle,

you enter there, I extinguish the lights

and I close the door.

You will have one minute

for hunting for the treasure.

With the second whistle,

you will stop dead.

All that you will have taken

will be with you.

On your marks,

ready...

You can amuse the idiots.

Why so many efforts

to please them?

I am very attached to the traditions.

- Who gripped my buttocks?

- Christmas present!

Forbidden to collect of the floor!

Our friends like your small gifts.

I will telephone my family.

Excuse me.

"Family",

such a soft word in our language.

Send them my best regards.

Do not let anybody enter.

He calls the people

to bring back the divine law

in the centre of gravity of the society.

"This wish,

"humanity owes it

"to the infinite number

"of mothers who suffer,

"of the widows and the orphans

"who have seen how

"the light,

that supports their life...

taken away"

"This wish,

"humanity owes it

to innumerable exiled

that the hurricane of the war

tore off from their fatherland... "

- What do I do?

- Tell them I am talking to my children.

Play music,

let them dance.

Mrs. Hinze... smile.

I will test.

It speaks to his children.

"... of non-combatant

"to which the air war

"that we have

"denounced many times,

"the men have...

"without distinction removed

"life,

"health,

"houses,

the asylums of charity

and of the prayer. "

Is that all?

It is all.

He did not utter the words "Jew"

or "concentration camp".

Can you leave Germany?

The Pope is too much protected.

He must hear a witness.

The Holy Father arrives.

Washington is astonished by the Christmas

speech of the Pope.

Not to condemn the Nazi atrocities.

the authority of the Pope weakens

and confidence in the Church.

One cannot condemn Hitler

without condemning Stalin,

who is your ally.

You cannot compare them.

Greetings and good wishes

from President Roosevelt

has sent us to the occasion

of the Holy season of Christmas

were for us

source of rejoicing.

Our heart is saddened with the thought

that the light which emanates from Bethlehem

illuminate a world

blooded by the war.

Nobody appreciates better

that President Roosevelt

The constant efforts of Your Holiness

to prevent the war

and to limit its spread.

Your Holiness knows the

ceaseless efforts of Pdt Roosevelt

for the victory.

A total victory.

Your moral assistance

in this effort

will be highly appreciated

by the President.

You have this time

the agreement of your superiors?

One refuses nothing with your sons,

protected from the Pope.

The Holy Father loves you.

Yesterday, he said to me

that Berlin will be a great

diplomatic experiment for you.

Diplomacy and Gospel

do they go together?

In Christmas, we waited

his words of fire

against the Nazi crimes.

You need evidence for the Pope to...

I have an eyewitness

who will come to testify.

An S.S. officer.

I have friends for lunch.

If you hold your tongue, you are welcome.

Thank you, I will eat in my room.

I wanted to introduce you

to the American ambassador.

Then, I'll come with pleasure.

Arnulf! What a big boy!

I have something for you!

- What is it?

- Look at it.

I visited a factory not far.

I took a turning to see you.

How does that go?

Better than yesterday although worse than tomorrow.

- Hello, Reverend.

- Hello, Kurt.

Small gifts of Ukraine.

Forgiveness,

but there are rumours...

on Russia.

It is said that a marshal of the Reich

capitulated

with his men

in a place named Stalingrad.

You listen to the English radio?

Me? God keeps me! Not!

It is a rumour...

Propaganda,

tall stories, defeatism.

Thank you, Kurt. You take away

a great weight from my shoulders.

Goodbye, Reverend.

200000 died, 90000 prisoners.

We collect what Hitler sowed.

200000 dead?

I cannot stay a long time.

Go...

enter all!

This war destroyed our values...

and the Church is the victim.

We had a warlike Pope,

he died.

Providence gave us

a Pope of peace,

and then war burst!

How are you?

Sit down.

Here is the American ambassador.

My son arrives from Berlin.

Which news of Berlin?

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Costa-Gavras

Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director and producer, who lives and works in France. He is known for films with overt political themes, most famously the fast-paced thriller Z (1969), but he has also made comedies. Most of his movies have been made in French; however, six were made in English: Missing (1982), Hanna K. (1983), Betrayed (1988), Music Box (1989), Mad City (1997) and Amen. (2002). He produces most of his films himself, through his production company K.G. Productions. more…

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